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Lightning damage types

Direct Stroke

About 80% of lightning occurs inside the cloud or between clouds, and only 20% occurs between the cloud and ground surface. This 20% between clouds and ground surface is called ground discharge, which also is generally known as lightning or thunderbolt.

The lightning that attacks an object directly due
to the ground discharge between cloud and
ground surface is called direct stroke.
Types of damages due to direct stroke include fire,
explosion, damage to building(object),
livestock/ human injury.

Fire

Damaged object

Human injury

Inductive lightning

Inductive lightning affects electric power facilities at the time of lightning. Types of inductive lightning include electrostatic inductive lightning and electromagnetic inductive lightning. In case of electrostatic inductive lightning, when thundercloud approaches a conductor, binding charge is induced at the bottom of the thundercloud due to electrostatic induction, and charges are collected in the conductor. When the charges in thundercloud dissipate due to various types of discharges, charges bound to the conductor become free and spread out in all directions at the speed of light.
At this time, equipment gets damaged due to the electric current that flows as charges move. In case of electromagnetic inductive lightning, the magnetic field around conductor changes due to lightning.
At this time, voltage is induced to the conductor inside magnetic field and current flow, which causes equipment damage.

If electronics are damaged despite the lightning striking from far, it is because of electromagnetic impact.

mages by inductive cloud

mages by inductive cloud

mages by inductive cloud